Patients united... they are the ones

[nadinbrzezinski]

running the new Louse adds on CNN... horror stories from the Canadian system

http://patientsunitednow.com/?q=about

These are the guys behind this

A Project of Americans for Prosperity Foundation ©

As right wing as they come. But the adds have started... JUST in time.

[SidDithers]

1. Both my wife and I think there's something fishy to her story...

we were talking about the exceptionally fast treatment response that we've had experience with. Recently, our friend was diagnosed with colon cancer on a Friday, and was having surgery on the following Tuesday. My dad was diagnosed with Kidney cancer, and had arthroscopic kidney removal within 2 weeks.

I don't know all of the details of this woman's story, and there certainly are cracks in our system that people can fall into. But holding up a single failure of a system that serves more than 30 million people, as an indication that the system doesn't work, is just garbage.

Sid

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. All systems have people who fall through the cracks

no doubt on that one.

Canada, last numbers I saw, was about 5%... which is a little high... but still within norms. (International norms)

The US... between the uninsured and minimally insured and people who get their insurance pulled is hitting close to 50%...

Now that 50% is my approximation, of the 48 million without it, 35% or so, and the rest is made by minimally insured, and things cancelled in the middle of treatment. So I may be off.

But what these guys are doing is looking for the few cases that fall through cracks and making this a federal case, to use a US euphemism... sadly some of the sheeple will not question it because no commercial would lie... and in her case, they probably didn't... they are making an extrapolation from a rare circumstance.

:hI:

[90-percent]

3. Corporations

Corporate Propaganda masquerading as populist anger?

Boy, how cynical does a wealthy Corporate CEO have to be to come up with this BULLSHIT?

All they got is bullshit and it ain't working so good any more!

Americans are learning to recognize a corporate PR scam when they see them!

-90% Jimmy

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I am not sure about that

they are using effective fear tactics.

[johnaries]

5. headed and backed by the Koch family.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_For_Prosperity

PS, Fred G. Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Claude_R._Lambe_Charitable_Foundation